Old Broadbrim Keeping His Vow

A city holding its breath. A dead man whose secrets refuse to stay buried. One detective who never breaks a vow.

Old Broadbrim arrives at Paul Latour's Broad Street mansion expecting a routine case of blackmail. What he finds instead is a corpse—and a story that doesn't quite add up. The suicide note is too convenient. The locked room is too perfect. And the people left behind are too calm.

As Broadbrim pulls at the threads, a shadowy cast emerges from the fog: Martha Monks, a woman scorned and dangerous, who came demanding a marriage or promising ruin. Jovan the Terrible, a man everyone believed dead, whose resurrection casts a long shadow over everything. And Lily, a pale young girl with a mysterious mark tattooed on her shoulder and a claim on a fortune she can't yet prove.

Broadbrim sees what others refuse to: murder dressed as mercy. But the deeper he digs into Latour's buried past, the more he realizes the killer isn't running—they're watching. Every move Broadbrim makes is already known. Every ally he reaches for is already compromised.

Philadelphia's most dangerous game is already in play, and the detective is the only piece on the board who doesn't know all the rules.

Can Broadbrim untangle the conspiracy before the real prey—and the real killer—disappear forever into the shadows of the Quaker City?